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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.